Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2023-06-06

On 6/7/23 03:03, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Dennis!
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>> Sadly this machine seems to be nothing but a fancy brick with 64G of
>>    expensive ECC memory etc etc.
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> I don't think the Fujitsu SPARC64 CPUs were ever officially supported by
> the Linux kernel, were they? Probably not going to happen in the future
> either.

Someone pointed out to me that the problem was seen back in 2017 :

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/linux-sparc-users/2017-October/000029.html

So looks like no joy with Linux ever.  However my other sparcv9 machines
may be perfectly fine. I will be doing tests.